The SUV hit a guardrail in an industrial section of town and landed upsidedown in about 5 feet of water, filling up within minutes, State Highway Patrol Lt.
Listen to my Morning Edition piece to hear how Charles Darwin and his butler dropped asparagus into a tub and how Darwin and his oldest son studied dead pigeons floating upsidedown in a bowl to test ideas about evolution.
Fitted with curved guiderails, the sodbreaker lifted the newly liberated sod cluster and turned it so that the sod ribbon would gently plop upsidedown, ready for settlers to slice it into individual sections weighing about 100 pounds (45kg) each.